Evaluation

There were quite a few problems and difficulties we encountered during the filming of Dossquell. One of the biggest was not having a fixed filming date which suited everyone. Bec and I did all we could in the boarding house that didn’t involve Claudia. We used class time very effectively (when Claudia wasn’t sick and was at school for the lesson) and got through all the necessary scenes that required non-boarding locations. Another big problem was that when we were filming in the boarding house the light was awful. At one stage as well as all the over head lights being on Bec and I had set up three additional desk lamps. When Bec was filming she would need to hold one lamp with her spare hand and I would be constantly adjusting the other two. Bec and I would have mini disagreements on how things should be filmed, I would state my vision, and then she would tell me if there was a way to make it work. Sometimes she would propose a compromise which just wouldn’t work in the story line, so we would have to continue to discuss.

There are an infinite amount of tricks, techniques and skills we discovered\learnt along the way. The desk lamps were definitely what I would call a trick. They were so useful; I must say Bec discovered that one. A technique we picked up practically from the start was that we would film everything numerous times. Even if we thought we got the perfect shot the first time, we would always try to improve it by filming it at least a 2nd and 3rd time.
I’m not entirely happy with my film process so far. This is mainly due to being a bit behind everyone, even though I know the standard of our footage is amazing, it’s just annoying being behind. I could improve this by working extra hard to catch up and once up to date not slacking off, keeping up with all my work.
I believe I (as an individual) have managed my time effectively but as a group we have not. Just trying to get time as a group to do everything was incredibly difficult and is the sole reason we are behind. Yet as I said before, the quality of our work should make up for it.
In terms of things needing to be changed, there isn’t a lot. As a group we have worked great together and the quality of work is amazing. Claudia is such a good actress and took direction better than I could have imagined. Bec works so well with cameras; she was a great producer and lessened most of the time to how the scenes should look. There is only one shot I hate and I’m disappointed that I didn’t argue my point strong enough. It is where Fiona has a flower on her desk and she is meant to be really wary of it because it’s the same one that hospitalized her (previously in the story). I wanted Claudia to act a little scared of it and perhaps poke it with a pencil (something like that) to show her being cautious but Bec insisted that it looked stupid doing it my way. The only problem now is that the audience will be confused and the story doesn’t flow as well.
If I could start again I would make sure we got all the filming done on time so right from the beginning of this term we could have been editing.
I don’t understand why these questions are in the evaluation but yes I have uploaded my footage to an appropriate computer for editing and because I brought an external hard drive this weekend, we can now back everything up.